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Christmas Cookies 2024

Christmas cutouts – both anise flavored and plain, assorted cookies of every shape and flavor, and the ever popular Italian Cuccidati … just thinking about the will set your taste buds into overdrive. The the Sodality of Our Lady is planning their annual Christmas Cookie Sale for the weekend of December 7 and 8 this year in our Parish Hall. Online pre-sale ordering is available right now at … Christmas Cookies 2024 LINK. Make sure you get you online orders in ASAP. Orders will be filled in the order that they were received and paid. We will have a limited inventory available this year … especially those tasty Cuccidati … so we expect some to sell out possibly even by pre-sale orders.

For more details and links to order your cookies … Christmas Cookies 2024 LINK.

Mark it on your calendar. Make your Christmas merrier with homemade cookies from 14 Holy Helpers!

Eucharistic Convocation

Friday, November 22nd, 6pm-9pm
Doors open at 5pm
Fourteen Holy Helpers Church

Join us for an evening dedicated to the Eucharist. St. John Paul II said the Eucharist is the “source and summit of the Christian life”.

The night will begin with a welcome from Fr. Greg, an overview of the evening and an ice breaker.
~ Fr. David Baker will speak next about the Mass.
~ Fr. Sean DiMaria will talk about the Eucharist.
~ The evening will end with a Holy Hour and Benediction.
~ The whole night will include music by John Paul Von Arx, the Coordinator of Worship & Music Director at Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH.

A light reception will follow in the Parish Hall. This event is free to attend and open to all thanks to the generosity of the Fourteen Holy Helpers Holy Name Society. If you plan to attend, please call (716-674-2374) or email (rectory@14hh.org) the rectory to register (just so we can plan the reception).

Diocesan Rightsizing and Reshaping Process

The Diocese has released their final decisions in regard to the merging and closing of parishes resulting from the Rightsizing and Reshaping process. For our Family #7 the decisions are:

• 14 Holy Helpers … merge with Queen of Heaven but remain open as a secondary worship site
• St. John XXIII … merge with Queen of Heaven and close the parish with the entire site being put up for sale
• St. John Vianney … merge with Queen of Heaven and close the parish and school at the end of the 2024-25 school year with the entire site being put up for sale. The church will function as a secondary worship site until the end of the 2024-25 school year.
• Queen of Heaven … remain open as an independent parish
• St. Gabriel’s … remain open as an independent parish

The list of closings and mergers for all families is available at … Renewal Timeline and Mergers-Closings LINK.

Essentially, through the mergers the Diocese is creating a single parish and school in West Seneca at Queen of Heaven with two sites available for worship … Queen of Heaven and 14 Holy Helpers. In the press conference announcing the decisions, Fr. Bryan Zielenieski, Vicar for Renewal in the Diocese, described a secondary worship site as a church where the traditional functions like Masses, the sacraments, and services can be celebrated but it has become part of the parish it is joining …it is no longer an independent parish. The other facilities of the parish being merged like school buildings, parish halls, rectories, convents and cemeteries become part of the new parish. Mass schedules and the use of facilities will be determined by the family of parishes. Some answers to these questions are provided in the following Renewal document … Renewal Merger FAQs LINK.

The Diocese met with the priests on Tuesday, September 17 to provide them with processes for merging and closing parishes, Canonical procedures which need to be followed, timelines which need to be set, etc. More details will be available afterward. The documents containing these processes are available at the Diocesan Renewal website … Diocesan Renewal Document Resources LINK.

Confirmation 2024-25

If you know of someone who is either in 11th grade in public school and has completed 10th grade Faith Formation during the 2023-2024 school year or is presently in 11th grade in a Catholic school program, please call the Faith
Formation Office at 716-674-2374 to notify us of this. The program will be starting shortly. The registration form is available at … Confirmation Registration LINK.

Support those who Support Us

We have been blessed to enjoy the support of our local business community over the past year. They have provided our parish, and the events and services we produce, with money, products, and services donations. Through their generous donations we have been able to generate needed revenue to work toward our mission and serve the local community.

Due to the recent coronavirus health crisis, many businesses have been forced to either temporarily close or operate in a restricted environment. Even those not as directly impacted have had to operate in a new world of social distancing, working environment cleansings, or managing a remote work force. Our supporting businesses stood up to help 14 Holy Helpers when we called … Businesses that Support 14 Holy Helpers LINK. Please consider supporting them with your patronage when you are in need of the goods or services that they provide to the community. Thank them and let them know that 14 Holy Helpers appreciates their support.

On-Line Giving

On-line giving to 14 Holy Helpers is processed through a program managed by Vanco Payment Solutions.  Vanco is a large on-line payment processor for faith based organizations and is used by a number of parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo. As a PCI Level 1 compliant service provider they are dedicated to protecting the security and privacy of our donors.

Making your payments on-line is easy.  You can access our on-line system by clicking the blue Offering button found in the right hand column of our Home Page (see button below).  You have the option to set up a donor profile to save your information for multiple donations … or make a one time donation without setting up a profile.  Donations can be made via credit card or ACH withdrawal from a checking or savings account.

The system is available now.  Call the Parish Business Administrator, Kate Wypij, at the Rectory (716) 674-2374 with any questions.

Parish Pictorials

We have started to collect the history of our parish life through photographs. If you have any pictures that you would like to share with us please contact our Webteam. Our current collection can be seen at the following link … 14 HH Pictorial.

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